StalkerPatti had a whole Facebook thing where she was supporting not buying anything on Black Friday. Sadly, we could not join her no shopping group because we had already been out and back with a purchase. Mind you, it was a new kitchen faucet because at 7 in the morning I wandered out to the puzzling sounds of running water where there shouldn’t be any and lo! The under sink doodads had gone all off. TheMan got all sink Greek on me explaining what exactly had gone wrong but “part no work, water everywhere” seems explanatory enough. TheMan also said Lowe’s was a zoo. Lowes? Weirdos.(more…)

Tuesday evening we went out and disrupted Tycho and Vande’s life even further by acquiring a new kitten. Tess, which is what we call her (short for Tesla), isn’t so sure of the new situation herself.(more…)

As usual we started out the trek at oh-dark-hundred in order to beat traffic so I have no shots of the entire lower peninsula save this one. Which isn’t very good seeings as it’s 3am in this shot.(more…)

Last week, I think, I pulled all the peppers off my plants because there was FROST! and the END OF THE WORLD! and GARDNER’S BEWARE! I thought I’d best get what I could from the peppers before everything froze off and died. Did it actually hit freezing? Nope.(more…)